the artiste and her chocolate

Kate's school has a big Fall fund raiser around Halloween and it is tons of fun. Each year, they have a contest for the t-shirt design.  The kids submit drawings and they choose one for the t-shirt.  Kate LOVES art and she is really good at art.  God has blessed her with that gift.

Anyway, this year Kate came home very excited about the contest.  She drew a picture right away but was a little hesitant to submit it.  She said, "I am only in kindergarten, they'll never pick mine."

Well...Kate did not win the overall contest (a much older student always wins) BUT she did win for all of kindergarten!!!!  They picked the best drawing from each grade and she won for her grade (there are six kindergarten classes)! Kate was SO SO SO excited!  They announced the winners at the morning announcements to the whole school last week and she was very proud.

She told me later that day that all the kids were so nice to her and wanted to sit by her all day.  I had mixed feelings about that but was happy she was happy.  Kate really needed this to boost her confidence at school (more on that soon, I promise).

Her prize for winning was a $10 gift card to The Chocolate Bar!  It was a perfect treat for her.  She was SO excited to go see what she could get with her gift card!

Kate was a little overwhelmed at all of the choices.  They have homemade ice cream, truffles and chocolates.  They also have HUGE cakes and pies.  And they have just about every candy known to man....

Will picked Kate up to look at all the home-made ice cream.  She has good brothers.

Will spotted this BACON soda!  He loves bacon but even he was skeptical of the taste of this!

Kate ended up choosing this giant lollipop (which she has hardly made a dent in) AND the chocolate tres leches below (which Dave, Will and I might have helped her out with)!

{I did not take a photo of the art that Kate Emerson submitted for the contest and the school still has it but I will post a photo of it later}

Please continue to pray for our family and for one of my peanuts in particular.  It is a very challenging time and I know the prayers can help us through.  Thank you so much.  And for those who have asked, we did get the results of Kate's testing and I will share them here very soon.  I just have had much bigger things to deal with lately but I so appreciate those who have reached out regarding her learning issues.


{an unrelated interesting note...according to blogger this is my 1111th post.  I like fun numbers like that ☺!  That is a lot of posting over the years.}